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It was a very musical house with Motown and a lot of soul music. That’s what I grew up on. It was just a very loving house. It’s got a very warm feeling.

Early in Kasabian’s career, Meighan earned a reputation for media provocation, especially concerning other musicians. He became well known for his insults, such as calling Julian Casablancas “a posh fucking skier”, Pete Doherty “a fucking tramp”, and Justin Timberlake “a midget with whiskers”. Regarding the reportedly depressing nature of emo music and its listeners, he has said: “Teenagers are better than that. I want to tell them to be positive about life. You’ve been brought up well by your parents, so don’t sit around in your bedroom cutting your wrists. Grow up.”

In 2013, Meighan began a project with rapper Wottee Watnot (Andrew Wattie) called Mic Rockers, described as “a hip hop/rock collaboration”. The first video from the duo, “Mic Rockers,” was released on 13 November 2013. In addition to the numerous musical awards he shares with the rest of Kasabian, he was named the 19th best frontman of all time by a Q magazine readers’ poll, and 13th best frontman of all time by a 2012 Xfm listener’s poll.

In early 2011, Meighan took his first acting role as Terry Graham in the sitcom pilot Walk Like a Panther. Reportedly, he had previously rejected offers to play in Marie Antoinette due to being committed to his bandmates.

His status as both a fashion icon and well-known football fan led him to be chosen to unveil Umbro’s England away football jersey in 2010, the first singer ever to do so. He has also modeled for Gio-Goi and Deadly Sins.

As of 2009, Meighan has made an attempt to tone down his controversial image. In an interview to Daily Record he said , “When we released the first album, it didn’t help in interviews that we slagged everyone off. We were only messing about, we were having fun but everyone took it a little too seriously…We did it for effect but we were portrayed as monsters instead of just a bunch of lads in a band. They got us so wrong. I don’t regret anything we said but it was ridiculous.”

He is a fan of Leicester City. He was in a long term relationship with his wife Kim James, whose initials he had tattooed on his wedding ring finger in 2005. They have a daughter, Mimi Malone Meighan, born in May 2012. The couple split in 2016. In 2017, Meighan announced his engagement to wife Vikki How old?r.

With Kasabian, he has enjoyed vast success in the 2000s and 2010s. He is said to have an intense, frenetic personality, both on and off-stage. He is said to have a similar on-stage personality to that of Liam Gallagher who Meighan has defined as the “perfect frontmant” after Gallagher won a Q poll for the greatest frontman, in which Meighan himself finished 19th. Meighan also finished 13th in Radio X’s poll. He is said to be one of the last rock-stars and tries to maintain the enigma behind it.

Meighan has been the lead vocalist of Kasabian since the band’s inception in Leicester in 1997. He sings lead vocals on the majority of the band’s recordings, has a baritone vocal range and does not play any instruments within the group, apart from tambourine on occasion and guitar on live renditions of ‘The Nightworkers’

Thomas Peter Meighan (/ˈ m iː ə n / , born 11 January 1981) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the rock band Kasabian.